Title :
A Simple Approach to Multiview Face Hallucination
Author :
Ma, Xiang ; Huang, Hua ; Wang, Shaopeng ; Qi, Chun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´´an, China
fDate :
6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Most face hallucination methods are usually limited to frontal face with small pose variations. This letter presents a simple and efficient multiview face hallucination (MFH) method to generate high-resolution (HR) multiview faces from a single given low-resolution (LR) one. The problem is addressed in two steps. A simple face transformation method is proposed by defining a constrained least square problem for LR multiview face transformation and a position-patch based face hallucination method is extended to incorporate HR multiview face details. Experimental results show that our approach has some advantages over existing MFH methods.
Keywords :
face recognition; image resolution; least squares approximations; pose estimation; constrained least square problem; face transformation; frontal face; high-resolution multiview faces; multiview face hallucination; pose variations; Face hallucination; multiview; super-resolution;
Journal_Title :
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LSP.2010.2047317